Liftgate Issues
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Liftgate Issues
I spent 20 minutes this morning trying to get my liftgate to work. Whenever I hit any of the buttons (on the dash, in the back, and on the fob) there would be 2 quick beeps and nothing would happen. Usually you get 4 long tones alerting you that the gate is moving. I tried manually closing the gate and it wouldn't latch.
The user manual says that there is a snap-in panel that can be removed to manually latch it, but I couldn't figure out how to take that off without ruining the panel. I eventually just kept slamming the gate shut (i have a short temper when it comes to this kind of thing) and it latched and is now working normally.
Clearly the way I did it was not the right way. I was wondering if any of you have had this issue and if you did how did you solve it? Is this a fluke thing or should I go talk to Jeep about it? Unfortunately even if I do talk to them I don't know what caused it and its working now, so replicating the problem may be difficult.
The user manual says that there is a snap-in panel that can be removed to manually latch it, but I couldn't figure out how to take that off without ruining the panel. I eventually just kept slamming the gate shut (i have a short temper when it comes to this kind of thing) and it latched and is now working normally.
Clearly the way I did it was not the right way. I was wondering if any of you have had this issue and if you did how did you solve it? Is this a fluke thing or should I go talk to Jeep about it? Unfortunately even if I do talk to them I don't know what caused it and its working now, so replicating the problem may be difficult.
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I spent 20 minutes this morning trying to get my liftgate to work. Whenever I hit any of the buttons (on the dash, in the back, and on the fob) there would be 2 quick beeps and nothing would happen. Usually you get 4 long tones alerting you that the gate is moving. I tried manually closing the gate and it wouldn't latch.
The user manual says that there is a snap-in panel that can be removed to manually latch it, but I couldn't figure out how to take that off without ruining the panel. I eventually just kept slamming the gate shut (i have a short temper when it comes to this kind of thing) and it latched and is now working normally.
Clearly the way I did it was not the right way. I was wondering if any of you have had this issue and if you did how did you solve it? Is this a fluke thing or should I go talk to Jeep about it? Unfortunately even if I do talk to them I don't know what caused it and its working now, so replicating the problem may be difficult.
The user manual says that there is a snap-in panel that can be removed to manually latch it, but I couldn't figure out how to take that off without ruining the panel. I eventually just kept slamming the gate shut (i have a short temper when it comes to this kind of thing) and it latched and is now working normally.
Clearly the way I did it was not the right way. I was wondering if any of you have had this issue and if you did how did you solve it? Is this a fluke thing or should I go talk to Jeep about it? Unfortunately even if I do talk to them I don't know what caused it and its working now, so replicating the problem may be difficult.
if it just didnt work in either direction.. take that mamma back!
Last edited by metalwonzero; 06-27-2014 at 02:13 PM.
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